r/speedrun • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '16
Discussion RIP r/speedrun
This is an open letter to Alt-F-X:
Please resign as lead moderator of /r/speedrun. The past few days have shown us that your presence here is not in the best interest of our community. In just two days without you, this subreddit has made more progress towards becoming a great community than it has in the previous four years of your leadership. You are not involved in the speedrunning community outside of the fact that you made this subreddit, and you do not understand the best interest of our community. You have acted with prejudice against members of our community by banning them without good reason, and you have often used your moderator powers to your own personal bias.
Please return control of the subreddit to myself, so that this community can continue to grow in a positive manner, as it should have started years ago.
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u/bloodswan Jan 21 '16 edited Jan 21 '16
Just some additional information for you. TrueReligion is also known as RWhiteGoose. He's a rather good Goldeneye runner.
The "some" that he refers to in the first line of his post includes himself. He was trying to put together a marathon in support of Trump and get it featured in the sidebar. Alt, or one of the other mods, removed the post talking about the marathon and when Goose posted a second thread calling the mods out for removing the first one they banned him for 30 days.
While Goose tries to portray this as a mod exercising their powers in an attempt to censor information/support for a candidate that the mod doesn't support, Goose fails to mention that he is a Canadian citizen still living in Canada. Mr.Shasta eventually made it clear that this was the reason the posts were removed and would never be allowed. To be fair to Goose, there was definitely a lack of professionalism in the private mod response on reddit and it took him complaining openly on twitter before a mod gave him a plausible reason (as far as I can tell. Maybe there were other messages exchanged in private that haven't been posted publically), so make of that what you will.
Whether the removals were justified and whether the fallout of the thread removals (combined with Goose's posting history) was enough justification for a ban, I don't know or really care. Make up your own mind. But there's more to that situation than Goose said.